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| There's a website I like that's currently having a contest. You know how when you were a little kid, you dreamed of being trapped in a toy store over night? Well the contest asks what you would do now if you were trapped in a sex toy store overnight. And I'm going to be honest; the first thing that came to my mind was this: I'd take all of the lube, squeeze it out onto the floor, then grab a blow up doll and go sledding. Haha. I doubt that's what they had in mind when they wrote the contest, but still, that's honestly probably the first thing I would do in that situation. Oh, also I would totally eat all the edible underwear. | | |
| I, as a strong supporter of gay rights, have decided to respond to the arguments I most commonly hear about the subject. Argument number 1:
Homosexuality is a sin.
Since sin is a relative moral concept determined by religion, it has no bearing on U.S. law because of seperation of church and state. Argument number 2:
You never see animals engaging in homosexual acts.
First of all, that is in no way relevant. We don't see animals do a lot of things. Should it be illegal to wear clothes? Animals don't. For that matter, should it be legal to kill people so we can take their women? Because animals do that. If we base our society on what we observe in nature, there's no point to society at all. Secondly, you do see animals engaging in homosexual acts. There are well documented cases of more than 500 species of animals engaging in homosexual acts. And those are just the documented ones. It's been observed in nearly 1500. Argument number 3:
What next; are you going to let people marry animals?
If animals were intelligent enough to give consent, why not let people marry them? I see no reason to prohibit it other than the matter of consent. Argument number 4:
Allowing same sex couples to marry devalues the concept of marriage.
Well that entirely depends on what you believe the concept of marriage is. If you believe that the concept of marriage is two people making a commitment to love each other, or even just be together, then I don't see how gay marriage falls outside that. In fact, it would actually devalue the concept of marriage to not let two such people get married. Since the only technical difference between genders is genitalia, the only definition of marriage that supports the argument is this: A penis and a vagina making a commitment to be together. And, granted, some people do get married just to have sex, but those are the least stable kind of relationships. Argument number 4.5:
The point of marriage is procreation and same sex couples can't do that.
This is similar to, but more extreme than, the last one. If the legality of marriage was based solely upon reproduction, this is what the world would have to be like: It would be illegal for infertile men and women to get married. It would be illegal for any married person to buy birth control. All married women would have a legal obligation to become impregnated again as soon as they recovered from their last pregnancy. As soon as a woman hit menopause, her marriage would no longer be recognized. You might think that's ridiculous and that's because it is. It's one thing to say that the point of sex is to reproduce, but to say that the point of marriage is to reproduce completely defeats the whole point of even having marriage. At that point, it just becomes something you do for a few months every now and then so you can have kids without angering god. That hardly sounds like a sacred union that needs to be protected. | | |
| I went in for an inerview today at the gas station near my house. It pretty much consisted of me showing them my social security card and them telling me that they'd call me as long as my background check goes through and says I'm not a felon. So I'll probably start working there soon, just not soon enough to help with my ticket at all. So I just need to find someone to borrow money from. If I can get my hands on enough money to pay off the ticket, I should make enough money to pay it back within a couple of weeks. Then I plan to spend the summer working both at the gas station and detassling in the morning to pay my back rent and rebuild my savings until I have an emotional collapse from being exhausted and never getting to see Nezza. With any luck, I'll have enough money to fall back on for next year when I'm living with her in a six hundred dollar a month apartment because college towns cost twice as much, but it's actually still cheaper than sharing a single room in the dorms, believe it or not. With any luck, I'll get to be happy next year and still save up enough to go on trips every now and then with my lovely lady. But first, I need to find a way to take care of the ticket. After that, things should get easier. | | |
| Okay, the reason I went several months there without posting is that NOTHING good has been happening in my life. I STILL haven't been able to find a job because before the nation's economy collapsed, our city's economy had already collapsed when a flood wiped out all of downtown and a large part of residential area. So finding a fulltime job has been nearly impossible. I've been donating plasma for money to buy food, and even that got so bad that my girlfriend had to start giving me money every week because I came down with the flu and couldn't donate for a while. All the groceries I've bought in the last few weeks have involved putting something between bread because that's cheap. But the worst thing of all is my ticket. A friend of mine who has been in Afghanistan for a long time came back to visit and for his last day, he wanted me to drive him up to Iowa City to visit another one of our friends. When we were coming back, a cop started following us and eventually, pulled us over. I don't have insurance right now because like I said, I'm struggling just to eat, and since I'm 19, with an accident on my record, insurance is pushing about 100 dollars a month for me. They were going to tow my car and leave me stranded in Iowa City but I explained I had to get my friend back because he was shipping out again in the morning, so instead they just gave me a $380 ticket for driving without insurance. My ticket's due in a week, on the 21st. If I spend no money between now and then, donate plasma at every possible opportunity, and completely drain what's left of my savings, leaving me with nothing to fall back on, I'll be about 80 dollars short. Even if my girlfriend loans me her entire paycheck, we'll still have to come up with about twenty bucks, and I don't want to do that to her. We'll probably find someway to pull through, that's not much more money that we need, but even if we do, it'll still really suck. I can't believe money has gotten so bad that I'm comparing the price per ounce on loaves of bread that both cost less than $1.25. | | |
| WOW! I wrote a post yesterday called 'The True Meaning of Easter'. It was about Easter and how it was originally a pagan fertility holiday before christians starting using it to celebrate the resurection of Jesus and it was meant purely to be humorous. And I thought it was funny. Maybe I was only one of about five people, but I thought I was pretty clever. So I wanted to submit it to one of the Xanga blogging communities to get more people to read it, like I did with my post about Titanic being a manly movie, since I think less than ten people probably read this. So I thought about which of the communities would be best suited for a post about a holiday about sex. I thought datingish. BAD DECISION. Most people who read it seemed to think that I was attacking christianity, and that I was actually angry that christians were taking the holiday away from pagans. Here are exerpts: "This is a horrible post." (which three other people cited and said they wholeheartedly agreed with)
"Bitching: The new way to celebrate Easter."
"blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. cry about it?"
"i feel dissapointed that datingish would find this ok to feature. must be a slow feature day."
"if it was intended seriously... you really suck at life!"
"sounds like you really just want to get laid." And then, the worst one so far, "May you go to hell (: Enjoy having sex in hell (:" Again, I say, WOW! Seriously, I was trying to make a joke. Maybe I failed, maybe I failed really big, but WOW. I cannot believe somebody told me, "may you go to hell". I don't even know what to make of that. I wasn't even making fun of christians, but seriously, stuff like this is the reason some people do. I guess the moral of the story is that a lot of christians hang out on datingish, so if you mention Jesus in a joking way, even if it isn't in a negative way, post it on mancouch instead. Or maybe just keep it to yourself. My goodness. I feel like the whole world hates me. | | |
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